Jumping ship

Abstract

THE RADIO CLOCK strikes up as it has done many thousands of times before to usher in another day. But this is not just any day. This is the last time that you will quickly shower and shave, toss on the executive uniform of tailor-made suit and tie, throw down toast and coffee, and head down the freeway in the company car to enter the office and battle once again with the problems of money (or rather the lack of it) and those queuing to spend it. Today is to be your Waterloo, when you become both Napoleon and Wellington. You will ?lose? because you finally decided to leave the battlefield and ?jump ship?, but you will also ?win? because you imagine that a world apart from the hospital will (at this time in your career) be a better one. You realise (and the irony is not lost on you) that you are leaving a hospital to improve your own mental and physical well being!